Heterogeneous integration of bilateral whisker signals by neurons in primary somatosensory cortex of awake rats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2966-2973

  Wiest, Michael C ^a   Bentley, Nick ^b   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FACE; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; INTEGRATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRISSA; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 17644374757     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00556.2004     Document Type: Article

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